The Clark Art Institute has appointed Christopher P. Heuer to serve as the associate director of its research and academic program, beginning July 1.

Formerly an assistant professor in the department of art and archaeology at Princeton University from 2007 through 2014, Heuer is currently serving as senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where he specializes in early modern European art and architecture. He was also one of the founding members of Our Literal Speed, an art and performance collective based out of Selma, Alabama.

At the Clark, Heuer’ll be organizing many of the program’s intellectual events and collaborations, as well as maintaining engagement on a daily basis with the Clark’s residential scholars’ program.